{"id":487,"date":"2005-08-30T21:23:36","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T01:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/08\/30\/rumsfeld-defends-environment\/"},"modified":"2005-08-30T21:23:36","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T01:23:36","slug":"rumsfeld-defends-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/08\/30\/rumsfeld-defends-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumsfeld Defends Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a6816'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/warbird.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"348\" align=\"left\">The<br \/>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20050830\/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe\/rumsfeld_environment\">Associated<br \/>\n        Press<\/a> released a rather astounding piece today in which Darth<br \/>\n        Rumsfield makes an Orwellian argument that the military<br \/>\n        is actually on the same side as the environmentalists &#8211; because they<br \/>\n        need to protect the habitat of some endangered species .<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Why? So they have somewhere to blow things up and practice<br \/>\n        killing people far from the prying eyes or offended ears of citizens&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">Rumsfeld said the Defense Department recognizes that<br \/>\n          some lifesaving military training depends on conserving habitat for<br \/>\n          wildlife<br \/>\n          and forestalling encroachment by suburban sprawl.<\/p>\n<p>          Working with conservation groups and other agencies to set aside buffers<br \/>\n          for wildlife habitat on nearby private lands has allowed the military<br \/>\n          to conduct exercises without restrictions on noise and use of airspace<br \/>\n        while simultaneously protecting the habitat, Rumsfeld said.<em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, and drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Preserve will combat global<br \/>\n        warming by letting all that cold escape which is trapped under the icecap&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">story from the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20050830\/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe\/rumsfeld_environment\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press released a rather astounding piece today in which Darth Rumsfield makes an Orwellian argument that the military is actually on the same side as the environmentalists &#8211; because they need to protect the habitat of some endangered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/08\/30\/rumsfeld-defends-environment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}